AppleInsider Staff
While Apple's often modest Black Friday sale won't kick off for another day, the company's authorize resellers are already in the process of updating their pricing and releasing door busters, like a brand new 11.6-inch MacBook Air for $699.
The $699 price from MacConnection is available only while supplies last, and they're said to be extremely limited. This model (MC968LL/A) includes an 1.6MHz Intel Core i5 Dual Core processor, 2GB DDR3 SDRAM and 64GB Flash SSD Drive. It's a brand new computer, left over from the previous release. At $699, it's the lowest price we've ever seen for this model (and any new-in-box MacBook for that matter).
Similarly, MacConnection also currently offers the lowest prices on the brand new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display (2.5GHz/8GB/128GB) at $1,559.00 ($140 off), the non-retina 15-inch MacBook Pro (2.3GHz/3GB/500GB HDD) at $1,649.00 ($150 off) and the latest 2.50GHz Dual Core i5 Mac mini at $549.00 ($50 off)
You can see the latest prices on all of Apple's Mac products in AppleInsider's Mac Price Guide, which is updated continuously.
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Reading this article, it's priced so low because it contains only a "1.6MHz Intel Core i5 dual-core processor". That wouldn't even be enough to fire up MacWrite.
That%u2019s plenty of performance for most people. The SSD%u2019s speed boost is far more noticeable than fractions of GHz or i5 vs i7.
Baseline of 4GB of RAM for $699 is a good deal. 2GB is simply: not a chance.
That%u2019s plenty of performance for most people. The SSD%u2019s speed boost is far more noticeable than fractions of GHz or i5 vs i7.
While you're correct, I believe that WardC was just getting a dig at the site for using 1.6MHz rather than 1.6GHz in the article text.
But the 2GB of RAM is a terribly inadequate for running Lion or Mountain Lion. Don't do it. Just don't do it.